| | | APSA_NY13-310 | | Plenary Address: (Re)-Membering The Female Body in Psychoanalysis Speakers: Rosemary Balsam It would seem that psychoanalysts could never overlook patients’ bodies, given the major role that males, females and sexuality played in Freud’s theories. Yet the body has fallen from grace in our fi eld nowadays. To focus this topic, Dr. Rosemary Balsam will discuss the impact of procreativity and the major accomplishment of the female body, childbirth, as utterly common, but yet the least psychoanalytically attended source of both positive and negative experiences that can shift body image and even gender portraiture. Old theory mainly fl ed it. Newer theories, by focusing too exclusively on the mind while largely ignoring the body, risk a similar female erasure. | | MP3 | | $10.00 | | $10.00 | |
| | | APSA_NY13-302 | | Symposium I: Embodiment & Subjectivity Speakers: Andrea Celenza, John C. Foehl, Jessica Benjamin This symposium addresses the role of the body through phenomenal experiencing, i.e., embodiment, as conceptualized by philosophical writers and contemporary relational theorists (especially from the perspective of intersubjectivity). Presymbolic, unmentalized bodily experience provides a ground of skin-contact and rhythmicity from which the capacities of differentiating and integrating experiences arise, especially as these are organized around a variety of binaries: inner/outer, self/other and female/male. Psychopathology is understood as a collapse of dialectical interplay, causing disruptions in early patterns of interpersonal recognition, flexibility and play. Presenters discuss how transcending binarial constraints can result in greater creativity and overall well-being. | | MP3 | | $10.00 | | $10.00 | |
